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Good essay. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not ConsciousTaken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.www.theatlantic.com

Notes from the Field | Sia X. Yang offers a poignant meditation on the role of pain in art and performance in China: "Pain in contemporary China is not merely endured. It is organized, moralized, redistributed, and ultimately naturalized as value." criticalasianstudies.org/commentary/2...

Notes from the Field | Sia X. Yang, No Pain, No Exit – Endurance and the Limits of Critique in China — Critical Asian Studies1. Pain in contemporary China is not merely endured. It is organized, moralized, redistributed, and ultimately naturalized as value. To suffer is not simply to live under constraint; it is to demon...criticalasianstudies.org

There are 64 issues of the important early Japanese socialist weekly periodical 平民新聞, 1903-1905 on the Internet Archive to read or download. This includes the first (partial) translation of the Communist Manifesto into Japanese (see issue 53). archive.org/search?query...

The point is, a lot could change. Making the change too soon might come back to bite. Another point: we have a lawsuit awaiting a court decision that may intervene in the decision to gut SAVE. It's not guaranteed to work—but if it does and you moved too quick, you'll regret it.

"You’ve read a million pearl-clutching op-eds about woke professors and cancel culture, but for my money, the real crisis facing American higher education is that colleges and universities are increasingly run by people who are hostile ... to the idea of the university itself." shorturl.at/MVe76

Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”shorturl.at

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

We’re hiring! 📣 The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale seeks a recent humanities PhD with experience in program-building, innovative humanities work, and higher ed service for a Postdoctoral Associate in Humanities Leadership. $70K + $3K stipend | Deadline: June 12, 2026 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/185526

If any postdoc scholars in film studies are interested in applying for a JSPS position and looking for a host institution, I’m happy to take a role of a host scholar at Kanazawa University. www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-in...

Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan｜Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceOfficial Website of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)www.jsps.go.jp

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

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I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

Join The OnionDon’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.membership.theonion.com

JPP is pleased to invite paper proposals for a symposium hosted by its Premodern Japan Collaborative: "Rural Medieval: Tabihikitsuke & Sixteenth-century Japan," to be conducted bilingually in Japanese and English at UCLA on October 2–3, 2026. japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/call...

Never forget 5/13/1985

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

The deadline to apply to come work with us is May 15 (Japan time).

Last couple of days to submit abstracts for our conference on theology and trans studies (with @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social)! We'd love to hear your ideas! Go go go! 🕯️

Theology4Trans Studies (online conference) (20-Aug-2026)Conference overviewOver the past few years, Christian theology has begun to take more interest in transness. Transness is recognised as an element within our contemporary metaphysical, ethical and pol...londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on magical thinking and elite impunity. “We are ruled by a class of people who seem either to believe or presume that war, disease, and apocalyptic destruction are things that will only ever happen to poorer and browner people.” [bostonreview.net]

A Year of Magical ThinkingElite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.www.bostonreview.net

‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitution www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitutionProtests are growing against moves to change Japan’s ‘supreme law’, a document written by the US that is now being challenged by Iran warwww.theguardian.com